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Re:Ask HN: How to Master Linux? by mixmastamyk on Sunday January 19, 2020 @03:16AM (#22090148)
Distro doesn’t matter much to be honest. The problem is that this question covers a wide number of fields.

The art of unix programming is a good book to get your bearings: http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/

Then learn a shell like bash, zsh, or fish thoroughly. A scripting language like Python can’t hurt. Building a custom kernel and toolchain is a fun process as well.

That’s plenty to get started. Good luck. ;-)

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Re:Ask HN: How to Master Linux? by CyberFonic on Sunday January 19, 2020 @03:25AM (#22090183)
The "Unix Philosophy" section is solid gold. With those principles in mind many other aspects suddenly make sense. Might be a good idea to keep that page bookmarked and return back to it, often.
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